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Michael FuchsMichael Fuchs has been playing MMOs for over 8 years. He has a strong passion for the competitive side of video games. Besides video games, his passions include reading, writing, and roleplaying. He currently attends the University of Wisconsin - Waukesha for a degree in Communications.

Final Fantasy XIV is being adapted for a live-action series in Japan. However, it’s not an adaptation of the MMO’s story. Rather, Final Fantasy XIV: Daddy of Light ( Final Fantasy XIV: Hikari no Otousan) is about the relationship between a father and son while playing Final Fantasy XIV.... >>more

The World of Warcraft private server, Nostalrius, which shut down to meet privately with Blizzard to discuss the idea of official legacy servers before Blizzcon gave its code to the Elysium private servers after no official word of legacy servers was made at Blizzcon. ... >>more

While ArenaNet has included a short video within the story journal to attempt to explain Season One to players, it misses out on so much detail and information that is needed to truly understand where Guild Wars 2’s story is today.... >>more

While Pokemon Go is immensely popular throughout the world, and holds several Guinness World records, not everyone will be able to enjoy it. China has joined Iran in banning Pokemon Go from their country.... >>more

Are you ready for an udder good time? As part of Diablo’s 20th anniversary, you can now access one of the most famous levels in Diablo – the cow level. This celebration has spreaded into World of Warcraft!... >>more

Many MMOs have holiday events, and your favorite MMO right now may even be running a Christmas event. World of Warcraft, on the other hand, wants to do something different. Blizzard has announced a schedule of micro-holidays meant to commemorate real-world events.... >>more

Battlerite, the immensely popular MOBA is still in early access. However, this hasn’t stopped Stunlock Studios from implementing major changes to the title to better the game for the nearly half-a-million owners before the games free-to-play release in late 2017.... >>more

The Wintersday update for Guild Wars 2 includes a new unlockable creature for your home instance – more cats! Then add the cats to your home instance you will have to make them hot soup, deliver it to them, and then they will appear for you.... >>more

China's Ministry of Cultural Information has now banned the streaming of unapproved games. That includes indie games and games on Steam from United States publishers who have not sought approval from the government.... >>more

North American League of Legends Championship Series teams Renegades and Team Impulse, as well as Challenger Series team Team Dragon Knights have been barred by Riot Games from participating in future sanctioned League of Legends Tournaments.... >>more

Dragon’s Dogma Online, unfortunately, is only available in Japan. However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t join in on the fun! We’ve written a great set of instructions below to get you into the game, and playing in a language that you understand!... >>more

It has been a while since Echo of Soul entered open beta test, and I'm sure you must have some questions about the game. Recently we're honored to have an interview with the NA dev team of this game... >>more

If you’re a fan of competitive League of Legends, you should know that Riot Games isn’t afraid to make changes so that the scene may thrive. In that spirit, Riot Games has made the following rule changes for the LCS Summer split.... >>more

Hello! We have an upcoming interview with Aeria Games about Echo of Soul. While we have a few questions prepared, we also like to gather questions from the community. So please, post any questions you'd like to see us ask here! ... >>more

Gold-sellers and botters. Everyone hates them. It would seem like it would be easy for a large AAA developer such as Blizzard to squash the cockroaches by using the legal system – however, Blizzard has lost and the gold-sellers are victorious.... >>more

The soul system in Echo of Soul is used to provide players with large buffs with relatively little effort. When a player kills a monster, they receive one chaos soul. These chaos souls are collected automatically, and they are placed in the player’s Soul Satchel.... >>more

There have been some roster changes in the European and North American LCS leagues as we move into the summer split. See below for who is leaving, and who the new players are that will lead their teams to victory!... >>more

I'm a huge fan of the TV show King of the Nerds. The show is an American reality competition series that airs on TBS. It is hosted by Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong, both actors from the Revenge of the Nerds films. The show is incredibly exciting, not only for its entertainment value, but it embraces to idea of nerds and geeks as being a unique culture and the TV show celebrates it instead...... >>more

Fast, Frenetic and Fun! Reign of Thunder is a 3rd Person, Action, multiplayer Mech game focused on creating an accessible yet deep experience that will ensnare new users and keep them playing for years.... >>more

Tunnelers is a Free to play online action game. You control a tank, you move with it and shoot with it. You play against other people in tanks. The whole environment is situated underground in what we call 'Arenas'. At the moment there are 3 popular game modes to choose from.... >>more

On April 16, 2011, an epic world event took place in RIFT online. It was all very well run and players enjoyed themselves greatly! At least...that is what I wish I could say happened during the world event in RIFT.... >>more

With the release of patch 1.1 to RIFT, it introduces the global Grim Harvest event. We are currently in phase one of the event, with Phase 2: The Reaping to begin on 4/16/2011 at 12:00PM PDT. (Note that Phase 2 was scheduled to begin on the 9th, but was delayed due to issues, which were discovered when the event was loaded onto the European Shards.)... >>more

Recently, Salem, a Sandbox MMO with a perma-death system was announced by Paradox Interactive. (You can find that article here.) We recently were given the chance to have an interview with Seatribe (the developer for Salem) by Paradox Interactive. I would like to personally thank Paradox for making the interview possible and Seatribe for taking the time to answer our questions.... >>more

Recently RIFT, the MMORPG by Trion Worlds, was released on March 1st. Overall, the launch was incredibly successful. However, the launch day was not without drama. No, there weren’t any game breaking bugs or server issues (in fact, I’ve only ever encountered one issue in the game and a GM fixed the situation within 5 minutes.) On the night of February 28th, a player on the Trion forums by the name...... >>more

Hello! My name is Michael Fuchs, and I am a Columnist for MMOSite. Thank you for taking the time to do this interview with us. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your position with Perfect World Entertainment? ... >>more